The fish is a pike. Also known as the sea wolffish. English name Barracuda, that is, pike or barracuda, golden pike family ling genus of striped fin fish. Personality fierce and invasive, love group out, because of its large size (can be up to 1.8 meters long) and fierce appearance and widely known. The pike has an elongated cylindrical body, a pointed mouth, a broad jaw, and a pike-like head with prominent canine teeth.

The two dorsal fins are separated, with five spines on one side and one spine and nine radial lines on the other, and the entire body is marked with horizontal lines. The pike is mainly used as an ornamental fish, but can also be eaten, and is found along the coast or at the interface between fresh and sea water. Its meat is delicious, but contains coral reef ichthyotoxins.

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Barracuda Diet: Barracudas have a wide range of dietary habits, and are omnivorous fish with a predominantly plant-based diet. In order to scrape food deposited on the surface of the sediment benthic diatoms and organic debris, but also eat some filamentous algae, proboscis, polychaetes, mollusks and small shrimp. In artificial culture conditions also like to eat such as rice bran and bean cake powder, peanut cake powder, dry water flea and artificial bait.

During the growth cycle, pike with a body length of 20-40 centimeters have a high feeding intensity. Before the reproductive period, feeding intensity is high and the esophagus and stomach are always full of food. During the reproductive period and the spawning and swimming period, there is little or no feeding. From the seasonal point of view, to spring and early summer and fall for the peak feeding season, to winter, because of the lower water temperature, the fish into the overwintering period, this time the fish feeding is very little or stop feeding.